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Ankara, Turkey (AP) -- Turkish authorities on Tuesday suspended some 12,800 police officers from duty over their suspected links to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen as Turkey pressed ahead with its vast crackdown on a network it says is behind the country's July 15...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan officials said on Tuesday that their commando forces had reclaimed the main city square in Kunduz from theTaliban and were making gains elsewhere in the key provincial capital, where the insurgents overran central neighborhoods on Monday. Residents said by telephone that...

A press conference marking WikiLeaks' ten year anniversary will be held at Volksbuhne Theatre, Berlin on Tuesday, October 4. Among the speakers will be, via videolink, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks Julian Assange, his lawyer Melinda Taylor, WikiLeaks media partner John Goetz and...

Decision denounced by Russia comes as air strikes continue in Aleppo with another deadly attack on its largest hospital. The M10 hospital has repeatedly been hit by air strikes over the past week The United States has suspended talks with Russia on trying to end...

Governance across Africa has improved very little over the past decade as deteriorating safety and rule of law have held back progress made in other areas such as human rights or economic opportunities, a survey said on Monday. The Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG)...

Violence erupts again during protests after 52 people were crushed to death when police fired tear gas at a festival. Oromo activists called for "five days of rage" after the stampede Demonstrators have clashed with police in central Ethiopia a day after a deadly stampede at...

By Mohamed Adam Quota system says 30 percent of seats in parliament in upcoming elections reserved for women. MOGADISHU, Somalia - The Somali clerics council has called for a quota for the presence of women in the parliament after the upcoming elections, arguing that the provision...

By PATRICK LANG'AT and NYAMBEGA GISESA The Kenyan government has submitted the name of Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed to be the next head of the African Union (AU) Commission. Ms Mohamed will face Agapito Mba Mokuy of Equatorial Guinea, Abdoulaye Bathily of Senegal and...

Governor Nathif Jama has declared the worsening drought in Garissa a disaster and called for urgent help. He has urged the national government to intervene and assist residents to avoid loss of lives. Jama spoke in Masalani on Saturday, when he flagged off a convoy...

Taliban fighters attacked the northern Afghan city of Kunduz overnight, entering urban areas and threatening a repeat of the assault in which they seized the city exactly a year ago. Sheer Ali Kamawal, commander of the 808 Tandar police zone in Kunduz, said the attack...